Boxlight Begins Offering Monthly STEM Lessons for Teachers

Lawrenceville, GA – Oct. 26, 2017 – Back in 2008, only three to four percent of K-12 science teachers were using sensors and data loggers in the classroom, according to the nonprofit educational research group Concord Consortium. While that percentage has increased over the past decade, many STEM teachers are still relatively new to the practice, and as a result, devising or finding activities involving those tools is often a challenge. To help fill this need, Boxlight is developing and releasing monthly STEM lessons, most of which will be centered around use of one or more of the 15 sensors embedded within the Labdisc portable STEM lab. The lessons are available at https://goo.gl/xAr2uv.

Lawrenceville, GA – Oct. 26, 2017 – Back in 2008, only three to four percent of K-12 science teachers were using sensors and data loggers in the classroom, according to the nonprofit educational research group Concord Consortium. While that percentage has increased over the past decade, many STEM teachers are still relatively new to the practice, and as a result, devising or finding activities involving those tools is often a challenge. To help fill this need, Boxlight is developing and releasing monthly STEM lessons, most of which will be centered around use of one or more of the 15 sensors embedded within the Labdisc portable STEM lab. The lessons are available at https://goo.gl/xAr2uv.

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Lawrenceville, GA – Oct. 26, 2017 – Back in 2008, only three to four percent of K-12 science teachers were using sensors and data loggers in the classroom, according to the nonprofit educational research group Concord Consortium. While that percentage has increased over the past decade, many STEM teachers are still relatively new to the practice, and as a result, devising or finding activities involving those tools is often a challenge. To help fill this need, Boxlight is developing and releasing monthly STEM lessons, most of which will be centered around use of one or more of the 15 sensors embedded within the Labdisc portable STEM lab. The lessons are available at https://goo.gl/xAr2uv.

Some of the interactive STEM lessons also will utilize technology such as document cameras and IWBs. In addition, they will incorporate opportunities for knowledge checks and student collaboration.

“Science standards now really emphasize problem solving skills and inquiry-based learning,” said Boxlight’s Vice President of Marketing and Communications, Sunshine Nance. “While this is a change for the better, it means that teachers are having to add the task of coming up with new lesson ideas to an already hectic work load. In our experience, many teachers are very pleased to receive well thought out, ready-made lessons, so we knew that they would appreciate having access to a steady stream of easy-to-execute lesson ideas at their fingertips.”

Boxlight is committed to supporting both schools and teachers working to increase participation in STEM classes and careers, with a special focus on increasing girls’ involvement.

In June, Boxlight’s second STEM initiative was to sign on to be the convening agency for the Georgia Girls STEM Collaborative formed under the auspices of the National Girls Collaborative Project. The Georgia Girls STEM Collaborative is a statewide network of professionals, researchers and practitioners focused on expanding and strengthening STEM-related career opportunities for girls. Boxlight will be responsible for encouraging collaboration and improving inter-program communication among these various organizations and individuals, helping them come together to share best practices, develop new collaborations and share resources. Collaborative partners include schools, informal educators, programs that offer expanded learning opportunities, and businesses and industries that are committed to informing and motivating girls to pursue classes and careers in STEM.

Previously, the company began working with the STEM Atlanta Women group, a nonprofit founded and run by STEM advocate Maxine Cain for the purpose of helping underrepresented and underserved women and girls to take advantage of global STEM opportunities and acquire skills needed to compete and succeed in the 21st century.

About Boxlight Corp.

The merging of Mimio and Boxlight Corp. has resulted in an expansive selection of premier digital classroom technology solutions designed for every K-12 classroom. The company is integrating Boxlight’s manufacturing of patented, award-winning interactive classroom technology and Mimio’s advanced line of classroom hardware and software solutions to create the most complete line of progressive, integrated classroom technologies available on the market today. For more information about the extensive product offerings please visit www.boxlight.com. You can also follow us on Twitter @boxlightinc or Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/boxlightusa.

Select schools investigating opportunities for using data loggers to introduce inquiry-based STEM learning in a real-world framework Lawrenceville, GA – Jan. 31, 2017 – As part of its efforts to prepare for Georgia’s new science standards and usher in a hands-on, inquiry-based approach to its classrooms, the Coweta County School System (GA) is piloting the Labdisc portable STEM lab from Boxlight. A group of science teachers, selected by the district to serve as “science ambassadors,” are evaluating the Labdiscs to see how the data loggers can be incorporated into the new-standards-related district lesson plans that the ambassadors are developing.

Updated series contains more lessons and includes MimioMobile collaborative activities, as well as suggestions for non-tech-enabled activities. Lawrenceville, GA – Sept. 28, 2016 – The ongoing presidential campaign is a golden opportunity for social studies teachers to bring real-world events to lessons about the election process. To support those efforts, Boxlight has updated the popular Mimio lesson series “Get Out the Vote!,” hosted on the MimioConnect® website, with new subject matter about the nominees, voting, polling, political parties, state representatives, and more.

Schools participating in collaborative learning event will receive portable Labdisc data loggers for STEM activities Lawrenceville, GA – Dec. 1, 2016 – One of the mandates behind the national push for STEM learning opportunities is to ensure that students’ socioeconomic status has no effect on their STEM fluency. Boxlight is contributing to this goal with its new initiative, Boxlight STEM Day (#BLSTEM), which will take place on December 9. A select number of low-income elementary and high schools in the United States and Latin America will work with the company in a hands-own, inquiry-based learning event designed to help students learn critical STEM skills and understand how STEM disciplines apply to the world around them.

Boxlight commits its resources to supporting institutions and professionals working to increase girls’ participation in STEM classes and careers Lawrenceville, GA – July 10, 2017 – According to research by STEMconnnector and the National Science Board, women make up only 28 percent of the science and engineering workforce despite the fact that female and male K-12 students perform equally well on mathematics and science standardized tests. To help ensure that girls and women have the confidence and opportunity to pursue science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) careers as they desire, Boxlight has signed on to be the convening agency for the Georgia Girls STEM Collaborative formed under the auspices of the National Girls Collaborative Project.

Updated website offers a wealth of resources for successful lesson planning for the back-to-school season Lawrenceville, GA – Sept. 26, 2017 – As educators enter the early weeks of the new school year, they can look to Boxlight’s MimioConnect® website for thousands of free lesson plans and activities, many of them teacher-created. The lesson plans span the preK-12 curriculum and include world languages, history and social studies, reading and language arts, science, mathematics and much more.

Lawrenceville, GA – Oct. 18, 2017 – Boxlight, a global leader in digital teaching technologies, has been named a finalist in the sixth annual Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) and TAG Education Collaborative (TAG-ED) STEM Education awards program. The company is a contender in the Corporate Outreach category following the successful Boxlight STEM Day initiative it launched in 2016 and due it recently becoming the convening agency for the Georgia Girls STEM Collaborative formed under the auspices of the National Girls Collaborative Project.

Lawrenceville, GA – Nov. 2, 2017 – Awareness of the benefits of STEM education are at an all-time high. Education experts have found that the hands-on activities involved in STEM learning stimulate brain development and promote a multitude of other desired skills, for example, critical thinking, problem solving, creativity, collaboration, inquiry and teamwork. Also, the Department of Commerce reports that STEM occupations are increasing at a faster rate and paying higher wages than non-STEM fields. To help educators harness the promise of this discipline and find the resources they need, Boxlight has published “The Big Guide to STEM.”

Lawrenceville, GA – March 1, 2017 BOXLIGHT Corporation, the leading interactive classroom technology provider, announced that its Labdisc portable STEM lab was named Best of Show by Tech & Learning magazine. The announcement was made as the conclusion of the 2017 TCEA conference and exhibition held earlier this month in Austin.